Following former Chief Minister Uma Bharti’s attack of the bureaucracy, in which she referred to them as “nothing,” Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made a disparaging statement about government employees, indirectly accusing them of painting rosy views of the state’s pitiful conditions.
Chouhan has recently issued many public warnings to bureaucrats, stating that no corruption or slackness will be allowed. After hearing concerns from the public, he even suspended several during the Jan Darshan yatra.
Chouhan went a step farther on Thursday, accusing the officials of deceiving the ruling party’s MPs. Chouhan was in Bhopal for an Aazadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav function at Minto Hall.
“If you sit inside Mantralaya, you only get a colorful picture (of the State). There seems happiness all around. When you actually hit the field, you realize how far the happiness has reached,” he said, adding that officers paint a false image of the State once he is in Bhopal and he learns about the ground realities once he visits areas himself.
Turning towards Principal Secretary (Industries) Sanjay Shukla, Chouhan said he wasn’t referring to him. Things are only done where the CM focuses, he added.
Commenting on the event theme, Industries Week, Chouhan said dut to Covid-19 he could not meet the industry delegates. “But we have again moved on the path of progress. I am not the guest, I am the host,” he added.
Chouhan pointed out that the pandemic was controlled through public participation, adding certain politicians live under an impression that they are everything and the most intelligent but he doesn’t think like this.
During an informal chat, Uma Bharti a few days ago had said that bureaucrats were nobody and they were only meant to carry slippers of the ruling politicians. She, however, later regretted her choice of words, underlining the contribution of the bureaucrats.
On Wednesday, she came up with fresh tweets, alleging that her remarks were leaked in a twisted manner to deflate her campaign which she announced on liquor ban.
